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It having been reported to the Court that this case has been settled, it is hereby ORDERED that the above-captioned action is hereby discontinued without costs to any party and without prejudice to restoring the action to this Court's calendar if the application to restore the action is made within forty-five days.

Back in April, after the second suit was filed in Indiana, Oren Giskan told us the Indiana cases were filed "because we came to understand that all of the claims we wished to have resolved could only be done in the State of Indiana," where ASI has their headquarters.

A brief notice filed September 14 showed the case against Author Solutions in Indiana was voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice, with the parties agreeing to end litigation and to pay their own costs and attorney fees.

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All of the Author Solutions imprints - with the sole exception of iUniverse - have Indiana venue clauses in their author contracts. This means that the NYC case (the one above which was just settled) was limited to iUniverse plaintiffs/evidence. Also, the sole NYC-based plaintiff dropped out of the action earlier this year which really limited what the lawyers could do and the judge could rule on. The second Indiana-based class action will be much wider in scope and thus (hopefully) should have a better chance of succeeding.

Buying someone out with all the ill gotten gains of Author Solutions does not mean the judge resolved without finding of wrong doing it means the victims settled for money rather than the full punishment Author Solutions deserved.

Lol at the thieves from Author Solutions calling a site that protects people a "verbally abusive site" well I guess when it threatens you making more money from your scams from scamming you'd be mad. Author Solutions steals from the elderly and disabled and lies about a money back guarentee. They took thousands from an elderly man without ever even printing out his book and they've done that kind of thing and worse to thousands.